APRIL 1 — And More Importantly, What Makes You Smile?

This Month’s Message: Prayer For The Month Of Promise

Lord,
One poet has called this
The cruelest month
Because with spring there is birth,
And with birth there’s pain.
But I don’t think there really is
A cruel month in Your kingdom.
I’m not a poet, Lord,
But I love April
Because it makes a promise
And then delivers.
The promise is the first warm whiff
Of Your good earth.
The gift is the profusion
Of blooms that make my drab world sing.
A gift so fresh and new
Each year that it seems
As if it were being given
For the first time.

Today’s passage:
“Laugh, and the world laughs with you.”
—Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Today’s prayer:
“Father, when I play a joke, guide me to do it with the
gentlest of good humor. When I am the object of a joke,
let me increase its fun with my own laughter.”